Date: 1752

"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Date: 1752

"Caution'd in vain--Oh! ever Passion's Slave! / You tempt your Fate, and the same Dangers brave."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Date: 1752

A puppet may be "compell'd by secret Springs" just as an engine "moves with Motions not its own"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Date: 1752

"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

"Heroism, romantick Heroism, was rooted deeply in her Heart; it was her Habit of thinking, a Principle imbib'd from Education"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

Thoughts may war with one another

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

"But, in order to place this momentous Affair in a true Light, 'tis necessary to go back a little, and acquaint the Reader with what had passed in the Apartment; and also, following the Custom of the Romance and novel-Writers, in the Heart, of our Heroine"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

"Recall your wandring Thoughts; reflect upon the Dishonour you will bring upon yourself, by persisting in such unjustifiable Sentiments."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

One may contemplate "the sudden Change" and "divine Image" which is engraven in the heart

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

"The Countess's Discourse had raised a Kind of Tumult in her Thoughts, which gave an Air of Perplexity to her lovely Face"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)